Chapter 41: because the truth is never meaningless

Five minutes.

Yuzhu Lu thought, just five minutes and it would all be over.

The ticking of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old mansion in the county many years ago, in her still peaceful life, ticking ticking ticking.

At that time she thought she could live out her life in peace and smoothness.

Suddenly -

It was as sudden as when that hairy reporter broke her life.

The countdown to death surprisingly stopped.

At the same time, Yuzhu Lu heard the muffled roar of the elevator bin behind him.

She turned around and saw the barn door slowly opening, inside stood a tall, broad-shouldered, long-legged man. Born with a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, which splashed with sharp fire.

Qingcheng Xie walked out of the silver-gray elevator silo, his gaze like a wedge, killing into the heart cavity.

Yu He's guess is right.

Yuzhu Lu was here, and before he entered the archive, the mirroring software he downloaded on his phone triggered a high-intensity signal alert. Yu He ran a connection scan and found that there was even a detonator in place.

More than one.

Unfortunately, these triggers could be manipulated by the mirror software, which allowed Yu He to break through the firewall and stop the countdown before it got in.

They didn't notify the police before breaking in, and time was running out. And they had already determined that the police had a mole, so notifying them would only have made it easier for things to go wrong.

Now it is clear that Yuzhu Lu is going to take a suicidal action to "clean up" the files of incriminating evidence for her benefactor.

"I know the countdown was only five minutes. But now it has stopped." Qingcheng Xie stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."

"The countdown has stopped ...... how does the countdown ......"

"That's thanks to your boss who likes high technology." A soft, satin voice rang out behind Qingcheng Xie.

Yuzhu Lu realized that there was still a person standing in the depths of the elevator.

Just now Qingcheng Xie's aura was too powerful, stepping out of the slowly opening barn door, as if it was the top of the sky, every step was like walking on her heart. So much so that she did not notice the youth hidden in the dark of the large elevator.

The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck, looks very casual and calm, and even walked out of the phone in a careless way, if the archives replaced by a bookstore or club, he was dressed in this way this eyebrows, and not at all inconsistent.

The youth smiled at her, "Ms. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."

But he didn't say much to Yuzhu Lu, the other side's technicians were going crazy on the program system he had just kidnapped. Yu He gently and thoughtfully said hello, then leaned against the wall again and continued to fight this silent program war with the other side, his eyes sunken, cohesive convergence, and never bothered with the conversation between Qingcheng Xie and Yuzhu Lu.

Yuzhu Lu is a woman who has been through a lot, and even when she encountered this situation, she regained her composure after a brief moment of shock.

"You're not cops." She scowled at them, her tense muscles relaxing slightly.

"No."

"The dogs haven't even sniffed here yet, you guys can come first." Yuzhu Lu narrowed his eyes, "What are you people."

Qingcheng Xie had no intention of talking to her, and cut to the chase: "Nineteen years ago, my parents died in a car accident. An unmanned car crashed into them, and after the impact, the front of the car spontaneously combusted, destroying valid evidence, in exactly the same way as your people just killed Yong Zhang."

"......" Yuzhu Lu said, "So are your parents betrayers who deserve to be swept away, or are they two police dogs?"

Qingcheng Xie : "They are the police."

"That's a good death, not at all unjust. Posthumous martyr, right?" Yuzhu Lu mockingly twisted out a smiling face.

"No."

Yuzhu Lu's smile froze for a moment.

"They did not die in the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed by a vendetta. Although all of their colleagues around them understood that the incident was not a coincidence or an ordinary car accident, as long as they could not prove themselves, it was an accident."

"......" Yuzhu Lu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if he thought of what he had been through.

"I've read your profile. Know what has happened to you."

Qingcheng Xie paused for a moment: "I know what it's like to go so many years without a fair response. Yuzhu Lu, not all police officers are guilty of the worst crimes."

"......"

"My parents died when I was thirteen, and as far as I can remember they did nothing to shame their conscience. In fact they were brutally murdered because they were constantly pursuing the truth and clearing the names of people like you."

"Yuzhu Lu." Qingcheng Xie said, "I know you hate the journalists who framed you at that time, the economic investigation, all the people involved, you left your hometown and suffered a lot, the reversal of the case three years ago is too late for you, nothing in the past can be changed."

"But do you know, in order to give you, to those who carry a trumped up charge to shed light, and how many you can not see, you do not know journalists, police, prosecutors, in the best efforts, and even in the end, even life also sent in? Why are they paying for things that have been settled in the past, for things that ...... maybe overturned the parties can no longer forgive, to give their blood, youth, and even their lives?"

"Because the late truth cannot change the past though."

Qingcheng Xie's voice was trembling slightly, as if he was not only talking to Yuzhu Lu, but also tearing himself apart after nearly twenty years of being trapped--

"But at least, it will get the future back on the right track."

"It can make the living, who have suffered injustice, raise their heads again. It can make the martyrs who died without a name, buried in nine springs. It can remove the heavy shackles from the shoulders of the victims, and it can let the people outside the legal net know what is meant by the justice of God."

"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Yuzhu Lu." Qingcheng Xie said, his voice calm and emotionally suppressed, but his red eyes revealed that he was actually very broken and fragmented, "but it's not meaningless. The truth is never meaningless."

"The moment you were found by the prosecutor and everyone bowed to you and apologized, did you have a ...... blocked gas for more than ten years, finally in the heart of the smoke dissipated pain? Although that painful pleasure is accompanied by boundless pain, but at that moment you can finally breathe."

"......" Yuzhu Lu's eyes moved slightly.

"You've waited, Yuzhu Lu. I've waited almost twenty years, and I haven't waited."

Yuzhu Lu : "......"

Qingcheng Xie: "In places you can't see, there are many people who have bled and died for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been pursuing justice to atone for their wrongs, to seek justice for wrongs that were not committed by them, to seek justice for the living and the dead ...... Do you think this is meaningless?"

"More than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children no longer know you, even you do not remember Qingli County's County Committee clerk Yuzhu Lu is like, but those who have never met you have not been willing to put down your case, you think they do this, is really just to say sorry. You think they did all this just to say sorry to you? ...... at least my parents are not. They became police officers to make money, to support the family, is to see it as a career. But they said so, and ended up dying for this career, with little money, without raising their children. I was only thirteen when they left."

" Yuzhu Lu , you are also a mother, can you imagine what my mother was thinking at the moment of her death?"

Yuzhu Lu was only silent before, but when she heard these words, her body trembled hard, as if there were a pair of tearful eyes in the sky, like hers, a woman who had been forced to leave her child, looking at her in silence to see her.

"Half of her body was crushed. I saw it with my own eyes."

"By your people."

"......"

"What did she do wrong, Yuzhu Lu? She never said anything very remarkable in her life, she only solemnly said one sentence, I still remember it to this day. She said that every ordinary person longs for a truth when they are stuck, and that people have to have something bright to believe in this world in order to have a head start to live."

"She wanted the badge on her shoulder to be bright, something that could be trusted by every helpless person who asked for help. But your companions, your organization, your people, killed her."

"Her shoulder patches were crushed to pieces."

Yuzhu Lu's fingertips were trembling slightly.

Qingcheng Xie said: "What you should hate is not the police, what you should hate is the criminals who framed you and slandered you. ...... Come back Yuzhu Lu. Some things shouldn't be like that."

Yuzhu Lu looks like a wandering soul, more than ten years of intricate life in her body tearing around. Finally she raised her head and opened her mouth to Qingcheng Xie, her voice actually had some hoarseness: "...... I'm sorry."

"......"

"I'm so sorry ......" she murmured.

But -

But, she added:

"You know ...... that phrase was the most repeated phrase when the prosecutor who turned my case over for me found me."

Yuzhu Lu gently: "I thought at the time, I'm sorry for the implication, what is it? It's that you've had a miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."

She looked at Qingcheng Xie with a very complicated look in her eyes.

After pausing for a few seconds, she continued on: "But now I'm talking to you, I'm sorry. I felt it, and I was thinking that maybe ...... maybe he didn't mean to have nothing to do with me at the time. He did, indeed, really feel stifled for me. It's just--"

The conversation turned.

Yuzhu Lu said slowly in the pale cold basement light, "...... there are things that can no longer return."

"Perhaps our people were compelled to implicate the innocent. And then perhaps, indeed, there is guilt and fault, but when I was at my most desperate and unable to hold on, it was our people who saved me. Gave me a place to stay."

"......"

"Without them, I might have killed myself in this long retrospective and wait, it's too painful, I simply can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."

Yuzhu Lu said slowly to Qingcheng Xie: "I can't say you are wrong, and I know I am wrong. But I, as a person, have belonged to the darkness completely and utterly. The light is alien to me."

"Whether it's wrong or right, I owe this life to him. I will not betray him even if I die."

Qingcheng Xie : "...... do you think he saved you is not using you? For this day, for someone to give up their life to keep their mouth shut for them! The countdown to death has five minutes and can also be manipulated remotely, why did they not take you? To let you die in the explosion with what they were going to destroy?"

Yuzhu Lu laughed a little: "You underestimate him."

"......"

"He said he was going to take me with him and had no intention of leaving me behind. I was the one who wanted to stay, because when things got big and enough warning was given, he had to leave a few people in the territory for the police to close the case." Yuzhu Lu said, "If I wanted to live, I could have fled after pressing the button, and he even left me time to backtrack."

"But I don't want to." She said.

"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, I don't want to go back to the place where I was locked up for too many years. I don't want to be tortured any more, I don't want to do any more cooperation. Death is not scary for me at all."

"It is living that makes one feel long and desperate."

Yuzhu Lu said, slowly retreating deeper into the basement, backing out into the light and into the darkness.

She didn't want to walk up.

She can no longer walk up either.

She turned her back and there was a pistol/gun at her back.

She did not move the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, originally just in case, she was not sure if she could really aim, but always try ......

Her gaze fell on the young man in black who never said a word and tapped his phone screen quickly.

Yes.

She can no longer remember what Yuzhu Lu, once the county clerk of Qingli County, looked like.

Her heart pumped tight, soundlessly gritting her teeth, trembling to open the gun buckle ......

Suddenly -

"Ding" a message beeped.

Yu He, who was fighting a procedural battle, took a pause.

He had set up a message block, but this message was sent by the other technician through the barrier. While the two were exchanging words, the other side sent him an anonymous message.

It's a video.

Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out who you are and who he is. Take a look at this and then consider whether you want to do this for him."